> " River Of Gold "by Maciej Marchlewski - well done on your first submission > (mine also this month) small tip, one thing I do always is look at the scan > desaturated and see if it looks better in b/w, I tried this with yours and > for me it works better - great shot
Thanks Tim. I didn't suspect to get any comment on my photo so I really appreciate yours. From this moment I can see at leat couple ways to use the situasion - maybe one would work better - but I'm pleased with the result. I've tried mono version as you've suggested and it's a totally different photo - something else catches the eye. The reason I've submitted it in color is that I made it this way. I've started to think if shooting b&w has a sense today as I can allways get a b&w print from color film and I'm forced to use C41 b&w film anyway (no darkroom) but I like to challenge myself to get into b&w thinking allready during composition not after comparing the results. Now I'm doing only b&w (frankly speaking only done couple of rolls) and maybe I will have something to post on PUG soon. I've looked at your photo (I didn't have time to take a solid look at all of the pictures :-( ). I also like it. I like this kind of portraits. Too bad you can't see where it was taken - at first I thought it was on the bus or something similiar - due to the nature of portrait photography everything out of the window is blurred so you can't see the height. But you can see a fascination in his face. Btw - also looks very nice as a black&white one :-) Greetings Maciej - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
